Index by Subjects

All-volunteer group leadership

• About This Feature Area
• Adding MAGIC to Your Meetings
• Highlights from "Flying Under the Radar: The Significant Work of All-Volunteer Organizations"
• Involvement in Civil Society Groups: Is It Good for Your Health?
• The Language of Leadership
• The Other Half of the Volunteer World
• The Volunteer as Leader
• What Volunteers Do to Each Other Is Not Always Pretty

Membership development

• Focus on Membership Development: Three Organizations Share Effective Techniques
• Fun and Simplicity Make These Recruitment Techniques Work
• Succession Planning
• Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

About specific all-volunteer activities

• Giving Help to Get Help: Where Do Service Exchanges Fit in the World of Volunteerism?
• Political Volunteering: Lifeblood of Healthy Democracy
• Protecting and Serving the Public through Volunteers: Old Traditions, New Challenges for Volunteer Fire and Safety Programs
• The Self-Employed Volunteer

Hospital auxiliaries

• Becoming Friends: How Two Former Competitors Merged
• Facilitating the End of an Era (Disbanding of hospital auxiliary)

Boards of Directors

• Ethics and the Hydra
• How a Board of Directors Can Demonstrate Support for Volunteer Development
• How Many Hats Do Your Board Members Wear?
• Learning to Dance: Keeping the Partnership of President and Staff in Rhythm
• Succession Planning
• Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Collaboration

• Becoming Friends: How Two Former Competitors Merged
• Collaboration and Partnership: Using a Process to Facilitate Success
• The Birth of the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration
• DOVIAs and Professional Networks - Models for Wider Collaboration
• Giving Help to Get Help: Where Do Service Exchanges Fit in the World of Volunteerism?

Corporate/Workplace Volunteerism

• Does the Emperor Have Clothes? A Closer Look at Employee Volunteering
• A Look at Employee Volunteerism  (Along the Web -- online resources)
• Generating Corporate Brand Value through Nonprofit Organizations and Employee-Volunteer Programs
• Getting Corporate Feet on the Street: Developing Employee Volunteering in South Africa
• Merging Customers into Employee Volunteering Efforts
  
• A Review of "Corporate Volunteer Programs" Research
• Today’s Corporate Workplace Volunteering in Context

Diversity

• Creating a Culturally Competent Volunteer Program
• Diversity Continuum: Indicators of Success
• Exploring Hispanic American Involvement in Community Leadership through Volunteerism
• GLBT Volunteering
• MEM-VOL: Migrant and Ethnic Minority Volunteering
• On the Same Wave: The Story Behind Australia’s First Squad of Muslim Surf Lifesavers
• Race and Formal Volunteering: The Differential Effects of Class and Religion
• Reaching Out to Volunteers with Mental Illness
• Volunteers with Disabilities: Examining the Real Issues
• Who Is That? An Interactive Exercise to Explore Perceptions
• Working with Volunteers with Disabilities

Evaluation/program assessment

• Is Assigning a Financial Value to Volunteering a Good Idea?
• Keeping Volunteers Engaged During Organizational Change: A Tool for Successful Transition
• Pathways to Change: Linking Service to Sustainable Change
• They Hardly Ever Do the Hula in El Paso: Some Reflections on True Goal Retrieval
• Think Before You Leap: Buy Success with Your Budget
• Valuing Volunteer Time
• What Are Your Volunteers Saying?

Executive director, role of

• How a Board of Directors Can Demonstrate Support for Volunteer Development
• Messing It Up: How Organizations Sabotage Their Volunteer Programs
• OUR Volunteer Program: The Management TEAM Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs
• What’s Unique about Human Resources in the Nonprofit Sector?
• Working with Senior Leadership

Faith-based service

• A Matter of Faith:  Volunteering in a Religious Context
• On the Same Wave: The Story Behind Australia’s First Squad of Muslim Surf Lifesavers
• Religious Roots of Service

Fundraising and special events

• Generating Funds for Your Volunteer Program: The Mindset and Methods
  
• Historic and Cultural Roots of Fund Raising in Italy
• Show Me the Volunteerism (and I'll Show You the Money)
• Volunteer Administration and the Fundraising Profession
• Volunteers and Capital Campaigns:  Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
• Working with Volunteers in Major Fundraising

History

• “Challenges to Volunteerism in the ‘80s”
• Māori Volunteerism from 1800 to 1900:  A recognition of community services in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• The Legacy of Volunteering by Children
• Our Organizational Roots
• Our Professional Associations: From the Past to the Future
• Preparing Newcomers Then and Now
• Religious Roots of Service

Individual pioneers

• Alec Dickson: Pioneering Influence on Two Continents
• Eva Schindler-Rainman: Innovative Trainer and Vocal Advocate for Volunteerism
• Mary Wiser Remembered
• What Alexis de Tocqueville Really Said
• Who is Harriet Naylor Anyway?

Old publications

• The Adventures of Vicky Barnes and Other Fictional Volunteers
• Exploring Volunteer Space: Ivan Scheier's Lost Book
• Hot Buttons in the Good Old Days
• Wednesday’s Children

Special organizations/causes

• Crafting for Charity — A  Global Movement
• How Meals on Wheels Started Rolling
• On the Inside: The Tradition of Volunteers in Prisons
• Public vs. Private Compassion: Colored Ribbons, T-shirts, and SUVs
• St. John Ambulance: 900 Years of Service
• Ten Thousand Villages -- A Journey of Service
• Unseen but Heard: Ham Radio Volunteers Help via the Airwaves
• Volunteers and the Oxford English Dictionary
• Volunteers in Childbirth, Past and Present
• Volunteers Lead the Crusade against Tuberculosis: the Founding of the American Lung Association
• Volunteers, the March of Dimes, and the Fight Against Polio

Specific countries

• Historic and Cultural Roots of Fund Raising in Italy
• Invisible Histories: Reclaiming Volunteering and Voluntary Action in Australian History

Humor

• 101 Tips for Trainers or How To Survive Life "At the Front of the Room"
• The Beatles Help You Thank Volunteers: Three Song Parodies
• The Challenge of International Publishing
• Transition Time: Following an Older, More Experienced Volunteer Dog
• "Volunteering is SEXY" - Mini-posters from Amsterdam Youth Forum
• Volunteering Through the Eyes and Ears of a Dedicated Dog Volunteer

International -- articles about volunteering outside of North America
(also see the index of countries represented by participants in the Keyboard Roundtables, which always have a multi-country panel)

Global or multi-country issues

• The Challenge of International Publishing
• Giving Help to Get Help: Where Do Service Exchanges Fit in the World of Volunteerism?
• How Can We Assure that the International Year of Volunteers 2001 Has a Global Impact?
• How Possible Is International Exchange?
• International VPM Job Exchanges, Part 1
• International VPM Job Exchanges, Part 2
• Perspectives from Conferees at the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in Amsterdam (On-the-Spot Audio Interview)
• Special Challenges in International vs. Domestic Volunteering
• World Leisure’s Volunteerism Commission

Single-country focus

• Bringing Hospice Volunteerism to Russia
• Generation V: Young People Speak Out on Volunteering
• Getting Corporate Feet on the Street: Developing Employee Volunteering in South Africa
• Getting Their Attention: YouthNet's Innovative Approach to Engaging Young People in Volunteering (UK)
• Historic and Cultural Roots of Fund-raising in Italy
• Invisible Histories: Reclaiming Volunteering and Voluntary Action in Australian History
• Māori Volunteerism from 1800 to 1900:  A recognition of community services in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Researching Volunteering in England: The Institute for Volunteering Research
• South Australia's Volunteering Vision 2010
• Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice: Negotiating Self-Identities in Japan
• Sustainable VQ Training Scheme (Hong Kong)
• Where There Is a Will There Is a Way: The Navjyoti Model of Collaboration between Police and Mothers in Delhi

Internet technology and online community

• Communicating with Volunteers: Making the Most of Your Options
• The Good, the Bad and the Totally Inexplicable
• GoVolunteer User Research Report (2005)
• The Impact of New Technologies on Volunteer Management
• Learning and Sharing with Technology
• Managing Virtual Volunteering: A Model for Decision Making, Part II, Audio Interview
• A User's Guide to On-line Volunteer Recruitment Sites
• Using Technology to Understand Volunteering Trends
• Volunteer Management Software Programs
• Why Can’t We Persuade Our Field to Interact Online?
• Wiring Friendships Across Time, Space, and Age
• Workshops the Wired Way

Interviewing and screening

• The Contradictions of Imposing ‘Checks’ on Volunteers:  Questions We Need to Answer
• Group Interviewing Techniques: Hitting the Bull’s-Eye Every Time
• It's Never Over: Ongoing Screening of Volunteers and Paid Staff
• Practical Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Leadership

• Deconstructing Engagement: Beyond the Buzzword
• The Language of Leadership

Legal Issues (see also Risk and Liability)

• Legal Aspects of Volunteering
• Practical Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Motivation

• To Volunteer or Not to Volunteer

Older volunteers

• "Boomnet," Capturing the Baby Boomer Volunteers
• Home Office Older Volunteers Initiative
• Identifying Promotional Appeals for Targeting Potential Volunteers: An Exploratory Study on Volunteering Motives among Retirees: A Review
• Volunteers "Aging in Place"
• Wiring Friendships Across Time, Space, and Age

Personal Stories (written by volunteers themselves)

• Animal Rescue:  Another Heroic Volunteer Effort during Hurricane Katrina
• Becoming Friends: How Two Former Competitors Merged
• Bringing Hospice Volunteerism to Russia
• Fighting SARS: A Hong Kong Volunteer's Story
• Perspectives from Conferees at the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in Amsterdam (On-the-Spot Audio Interview)
• Political Volunteering: Lifeblood of Healthy Democracy
• Reaching Out to Volunteers with Mental Illness
• Relapse Into Volunteerism: An Unsuccessful Attempt to Resign From the Field
• Transition Time: Following an Older, More Experienced Volunteer Dog
• Volunteering Through the Eyes and Ears of a Dedicated Dog Volunteer
• Where There Is a Will There Is a Way: The Navjyoti Model of Collaboration between Police and Mothers in Delhi

Philosophy of volunteerism

• Is All Volunteering Created Equal?
• They Hardly Ever Do the Hula in El Paso: Some Reflections on True Goal Retrieval
• Mandated Service - The Future of Volunteering?
• Representing the Interests of the Community: What Happens When Volunteers Take Their Roles Seriously
• Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
• Volunterrorism?
• Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Policy development

• Developing a Rational National Approach to Issues Affecting Volunteers
• Earning Power and Respect for Volunteer Services
• Messing It Up: How Organizations Sabotage Their Volunteer Programs
• "O Canada" - The Listening Behind the Canada Volunteerism Initiative
• Policy Documents on Volunteering
• Surveys and Data
• South Australia's Volunteering Vision 2010
• What’s Unique about Human Resources in the Nonprofit Sector?

Profession/field of volunteer management
(also see Volunteer program manager, role of)

About professional associations and exchanges

• The Birth of the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration
• Creating a Viable National Association for Leaders of Volunteers
• Do We Need New Models for DOVIAs?
• DOVIAs and Professional Networks - Models for Wider Collaboration
• The Growth of VolunTourism
• International VPM Job Exchanges, Part 1
• International VPM Job Exchanges, Part 2
• Reflections on Building the Profession in Australasia
• Volunteerism in the Cultural Arts – A Hidden Treasure?
• Why Can’t We Persuade Our Field to Interact Online?

National-level issues

• The State of Volunteer Management Infrastructure

Issues facing the field as a whole

• Beyond Competencies
• The Contradictions of Imposing ‘Checks’ on Volunteers:  Questions We Need to Answer
• Developing a Rational National Approach to Issues Affecting Volunteers
• Earning Power and Respect for Volunteer Services
• Exploring Volunteer Space: Ivan Scheier's Lost Book
• Finding Our Profession
• Generating Funds for Your Volunteer Program: The Mindset and Methods
• Is Volunteer Management Superior to Employee Management?
• Messing It Up: How Organizations Sabotage Their Volunteer Programs
• Online Periodicals on Volunteerism
• The Other Half of the Volunteer World
• Preparing Newcomers Then and Now
• Should Volunteer Administration Be a Profession?
• Transferable Skills: What Makes Us Invaluable?  
• Volunteer Administration and the Fundraising Profession
• Walking a Fine Line: Are We Over-formalising Volunteering?
• What is Volunteer Management at the Start of the 21st Century?
• Where Are the Men?
• Where Do We Belong on the Organizational Chart?
• Widening Our Horizons

Recognition

• The Beatles Help You Thank Volunteers: Three Song Parodies
• A Poetry of Volunteering?

Recordkeeping

• Volunteer Management Software Programs

Recruitment (includes motivation)

• Can We Use a "New Philanthropy" Approach to Recruit Volunteers?
• "Changing the Focus on Volunteering: An Investigation of Volunteers' Multiple Contributions for a Charitable Organization
• Creating a "Fear-Less Speakers Bureau Program
• Deconstructing Engagement: Beyond the Buzzword
• Engaging Generation Y
• From Volunteer to New Career
• Fun and Simplicity Make These Recruitment Techniques Work
• Getting the Attention You Want from the Media
• Involvement in Civil Society Groups: Is It Good for your Health?
• Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
• Membership Recruitment Made Easy
• Perspectives on Membership Development
• The Power of Personal Connections
• PSAs and Volunteer Recruitment Campaigns
• Six Training Exercises to Enhance Recruitment of Volunteers
• A User's Guide to On-line Volunteer Recruitment Sites

Research
(See the list of studies reviewed in the "Research to Practice" feature area in every issue. The following are feature articles presenting or discussing research in more detail.)

• About This Feature Area
• Emerging Trends and Issues in Volunteerism and Volunteer Program Management
• Finding and Keeping Volunteers in Sport and Recreation:
  What the Research Tells Us
• Generating Corporate Brand Value through Nonprofit Organizations and Employee-Volunteer Programs
• Helping Out: A National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving (2007)
• The Home Office's Research on the Active Community in England and Wales
• How Much Is An Hour of Volunteer Time Worth?
• Highlights from "Flying Under the Radar: The Significant Work of All-Volunteer Organizations"
• Identifying Promotional Appeals for Targeting Potential Volunteers: An Exploratory Study on Volunteering Motives among Retirees: A Review
• Investing in Volunteerism: The Impact of Service Initiatives in Selected Texas State Agencies
• Making Sense of Volunteering: A Literature Review
• Managing Virtual Volunteering: A Model for Decision Making, Part II, Audio Interview
• Miscellaneous Good Stuff, Part 1
• A Model for Applying Data
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Four Models of Involving Volunteers in Small Voluntary Organisations
• Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America (Book Review)
• "Race and Formal Volunteering: The Differential Effects of Class and Religion"
• Researching Volunteering in England: The Institute for Volunteering Research
• A Review of “Corporate Volunteer Programs” Research
• Surveys and Data (Along the Web listings)
• Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
• Valuing Volunteer Time
• Volunteer Vacationers and What Research Can Tell Us about Them
• Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice: Negotiating Self-Identities in Japan
• Volunteering for Student Success:  When Parents, Communities, and Teachers Connect
• World Leisure’s Volunteerism Commission
• Young People’s Volunteering and Skills Development:
   A Study by The National Youth Agency

Retention

• Changing the Focus on Volunteerism: An Investigation of Volunteers' Multiple Contributions for a Charitable Organization
• Keeping Volunteers Engaged During Organizational Change: A Tool for Successful Transition
• To Volunteer or Not to Volunteer
• Volunteer Retention and Feelings of Connection

Risk and Liability

• Clearing Hurdles on the Volunteer Obstacle Course
• The Contradictions of Imposing ‘Checks’ on Volunteers:  Questions We Need to Answer
• Ethics and the Hydra
• It's Never Over: Ongoing Screening of Volunteers and Paid Staff
• Legal Aspects of Volunteering
• Legal Liability and Risk Management for Volunteer Programs (Revisited)
• Practical Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Volunteers' Most Common Accidents-and How to Avoid Them
• Walking a Fine Line: Are We Over-formalising Volunteering?

Special Settings/Fields

• Brisbane’s Homeless Connect Initiative
• The Growth of VolunTourism
• Major Events Volunteering

Cultural Arts

• Shape Your Future – A Museum Helps Volunteers Help Themselves
• Volunteerism in the Cultural Arts – A Hidden Treasure?
• Volunteers in Arts and Culture

Health Care and Emergency Response

• Animal Rescue:  Another Heroic Volunteer Effort during Hurricane Katrina
• Becoming Friends: How Two Former Competitors Merged
• Bringing Hospice Volunteerism to Russia
• Emergent, Spontaneous, Unaffiliated and Disaster Volunteers
• Facilitating the End of an Era (Disbanding of hospital auxiliary)
• Fighting SARS: A Hong Kong Volunteer's Story
• Protecting and Serving the Public through Volunteers: Old Traditions, New Challenges for Volunteer Fire and Safety Programs
• Unseen but Heard: Ham Radio Volunteers Help via the Airwaves
• Volunteers in Childbirth, Past and Present
• When Disaster Strikes: Getting Volunteer Resources to the Right Place at the Right Time
  

Justice

• On the Inside: The Tradition of Volunteers in Prisons
• Where There Is a Will There Is a Way: The Navjyoti Model of Collaboration between Police and Mothers in Delhi

Recreation/sports

• Good Sports
• The Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games Volunteer Program

Special Types of Volunteers

• A Part of Society:
  Refugees and Asylum Seekers Volunteering in the UK
  
• Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus: Senior Pioneer

• Family Volunteering
• Family Feud: Relatives, Co-Workers and Friends as Volunteers
• Finding and Keeping Volunteers in Sport and Recreation:
  What the Research Tells Us
• Generation V: Young People Speak Out on Volunteering
• GLBT Volunteering
• Highly-Skilled Volunteers = High Impact Results!
• Home Office Older Volunteers Initiative
• Making Philanthropic Decisions Family Style
• MEM-VOL: Migrant and Ethnic Minority Volunteering
• The Road Not Taken
• Teens with Autism Show that Volunteering Is for Everyone  
• Transition Time: Following an Older, More Experienced Volunteer Dog
• Volunteer Vacationers and What Research Can Tell Us about Them
• Volunteers with Disabilities: Examining the Real Issues
• Young People’s Volunteering and Skills Development:
   A Study by The National Youth Agency

Staff/Volunteer Relations

• Deconstructing Engagement: Beyond the Buzzword
• Family Feud: Relatives, Co-Workers and Friends as Volunteers
• OUR Volunteer Program: The Management TEAM Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs
• Training Paid Staff to Welcome Volunteers: The Boulder County Experience
• Supplementing or Supplanting? The Mystery of "Volunteer" versus "Paid Employee Right to Work
• Volunteer Administration and the Fundraising Profession
• Volunteering for Student Success:  When Parents, Communities, and Teachers Connect
• What's Unique about Human Resources in the Nonprofit Sector?
• What Volunteers Do to Each Other Is Not Always Pretty

Supervision

• Communicating with Volunteers: Making the Most of Your Options
• Deconstructing Engagement: Beyond the Buzzword
• Family Feud: Relatives, Co-Workers and Friends as Volunteers
• How Many Supervisors Does It Take to Screw in a Volunteer?
• Integrity - The Guidepost to Volunteer Relationships
• Preparing Newcomers Then and Now
• Volunteer Retention and Feelings of Connection
• Volunteers “Aging in Place”

Training
(See the list of topics published in the Training Designs feature area in every issue. The following are feature articles with additional information about training.)

• Advanced Training: What Do We Mean?
• Appreciative Inquiry: A Strengths-Based Approach in Volunteer Training
• Clearing Hurdles on the Volunteer Obstacle Course
• Creating a Culturally Competent Volunteer Program
• Engaging People!  Your Competitive Advantage  
• The ‘T’ Word in Volunteer Management: A Creative Approach to Getting Volunteers into Training
• Training Paid Staff to Welcome Volunteers: The Boulder County Experience
• Training Tips When Faced with Challenging Participants
  
• VQ Sustainable Training Scheme
• Workshops the Wired Way

Trends and Issues

• Clearing Hurdles on the Volunteer Obstacle Course
• Developing Agency Capacity to Promote and Support Family Volunteerism
• Developing a Rational National Approach to Issues Affecting Volunteers
• Doing Good and Seeing the World: A Look at Volunteer Vacations
• Emerging Trends and Issues in Volunteerism and Volunteer Program Management
• Engaging Generation Y
• Exploring the Impact of Volunteer Trends
• Five Key Trends and Their Impact on the Voluntary Sector
• Future Trends in Volunteerism
• The Growth of VolunTourism
• Innovations in Volunteerism
• Looking at the Brighter Side
• Mandated Service - The Future of Volunteering?
• Merging Customers into Employee Volunteering Efforts
• Miscellaneous Good Stuff, Part 4
• Sabotage Part Two: How Managers of Volunteers Diminish Their Role
• Teens with Autism Show that Volunteering Is for Everyone  
• Time is Money: Time Dollars and the Money is Value Metaphor
• Today’s Corporate Workplace Volunteering in Context
• Using Technology to Understand Volunteering Trends
• Volunteering as a Family Unit
• Volunterrorism?
• Widening Our Horizons
• What Is Volunteer Management at the Start of the 21st Century?
• Why Can’t We Persuade Our Field to Interact Online?

Volunteer Centers

• Brisbane’s Homeless Connect Initiative
• Developing Agency Capacity to Promote and Support Family Volunteerism
• National Volunteer Centers
• Volunteer Resource Organizations

Volunteer program manager, role of
(See also Profession/field of volunteer management)

• Are You a “Manager” or a “Leader” of Volunteers?
• Designing a Strategy for Persuasion
• Earning Power and Respect for Volunteer Services
• If You Think Education is Expensive…Try Ignorance
• Integrity - The Guidepost to Volunteer Relationships
• OUR Volunteer Program: The Management TEAM Approach to Enhancing Volunteer Programs
• Representing the Interests of the Community: What Happens When Volunteers Take Their Roles Seriously
• Sabotage! The Five Lethal Factors Volunteer Managers Employ to Harm Their Programs
• Sabotage Part Two: How Managers of Volunteers Diminish Their Role
• Volunteer Management: An Overlooked Strategy in Improving the Elections Process
• What Are Your Volunteers Saying?
• What Is Volunteer Management at the Start of the 21st Century?
• Working with Senior Leadership

Volunteer Work Design

• From Observation to Action
• Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Four Models of Involving Volunteers in Small Voluntary Organisations
• Supplementing or Supplanting? The Mystery of "Volunteer" versus "Paid Employee Right to Work"
• The Self-Employed Volunteer
• Thinking the Unthinkable: Are We Using the Wrong Model for Volunteer Work?
• Trailblazers and Troublemakers: Entrepreneurial Volunteers
• Wednesday's Children

Youth/students and service learning

About children, teens and young adults

• Engaging Generation Y
• Generation V: Young People Speak Out on Volunteering
• Getting Their Attention: YouthNet’s Innovative Approach to Engaging Young People in Volunteering
• Hearing from Youth as Well as About Them
• The Legacy of Volunteering by Children
• Making Philanthropic Decisions Family Style
• Reach Out to Youth – Their Way
• "Volunteering is SEXY" - Mini-posters from Amsterdam Youth Forum
• Wiring Friendships Across Time, Space, and Age
• Working with Young Volunteers
• Young People’s Volunteering and Skills Development:
   A Study by The National Youth Agency

About curriculum-based service

• Investing in Volunteerism: The Impact of Service Initiatives in Selected Texas State Agencies
• Mandated Service - The Future of Volunteering?
• Pathways to Change: Linking Service to Sustainable Change

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